Clasp for garment-supporters.



S. KOPS. CLASP FOR GARMENT SUPPORTEBS. APPLIoATIoN FILED MAY 1s, 190s.

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SAMUEL KOPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO KOPS BROS., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A FIRM.

CLLSP FOR GABMENT-SIEI'ORTERS.

No. eiaiss.

Application filed May 1S, 1908.

Speccaton of Letters Patent.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that l, SAMUEL Kors, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing in the borough of llianhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an linprovenient in Clasps for Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.-

dy invention relates to an improvement upon the structure shown and described in my application for Letters latent in the United States, Serial No. 33 ,205, filed June 22, i907, with the object or" simplifying the clasp and at the same time maintaining an equal e'liiciency.

ln carrying out my inventicn l employ in combination with a ilat tongue member of ietal having a fabric engaging slot at one end, a plate member having jaws receiving and engaging the said tongue member and a removable member of yielding material such as rubber coming between the upper face of the plate member and the juxtaposed and under surface ot the tongue member in use, and in so doing eilecting an additional hold or grip upon the interposed fabric. I prefer to employ a tapering tongue member and a slotted jaw plate member. This removable meinber of yielding material is preferably in the forni ol an endless band of rubber stretched over the jaw plate member between boundu aries or limits provided therefor in the direction desired. rThis band may extend across the plate in the line of its width, or lengthwise of the plate between the jaws; recesses or apertures being provided to receive and locate the same.

In the drawing, Figure l is an elevation, Fig. 2 a vertical longitudinal section showing the devices ot my improvement, Fig. 3 is an elevation of the slotted plate member alone. Figs. 4, 5, 6, '7, 9 and l() are elevations of jaw plate members showing forms of my invention and Fig. 8 is a vertical central section through the form shown in Fig. 7 all of which are hereinafter more particularly described.

a represents the main webbing of the hose supporter connected in the usual manner to a slotted plate l).

c represents a tape or webbing connected 'with one of the slots of the plate l).

d represents the tapering tongue member and d1 a slot at one end of the same. This slot receives a part of the tape or webbing c which in turn is connected to the plate l; and

this saine tape or webbing c extends to connection with the slots of the slotted jaw plate member c. rThis latter is provided with parallel oppositely disposed slots 2 3 and with intermediate side jaws c1 c2 adapted to receive between them the tapering tongue member d in gripping the `labric of 'the hose or other article oi wearing apparel. This slotted jaw plate member is preferably constructed so as to provide an appreciable space between similar' ends of the jaws and one of theslot-s. l have shown in the drawing 3 that this space is at the lower portion of the plate member' between the lower ends of the jaws el e2 and the slot 2, while in l have shown this space at the upper' part of the plate member. l provide a strip of yielding or flexible material f, preferably a strip of rubber,which is sprung over the middle of the plate and surrounds the saine at either oi these points, coming between the ends of the jaws and one of said slots. l may employ either or both of these bands. This provides a yielding surface which cornes next to the under surface of the tapering tongue member when the saine is passed between the jaws @l am e2, consequently when the fabric of the hose or other garment is placed between the slotted j aw plate member and the tapering tongue member, the saine will not only be gripped between the jaws and the edges of the tapering tongue member, but between the under surface of the tapering tongue member and the surface of the yielding material, there being thus several points ot grip between the parts for more secure y engaging and holding the fabric in the grip of the clasp.

ln Figs. 5 and 6 i have illustrated the outer bars e3 of' the plate e as cut through and the inner plate edges oiC the slots as centrally notched and bands of i'ieXible yielding material g g1 diiiering in width, as received in said notches and stretched lengthwise over the slotted jaw plate e between the jaws. The outer bars e3 as cut through permit of the passage into the slots of the ends of the flexible material which by preference are endless bands.

In the forms of my invention. shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the slotted jaw plate member e is centrally apertured-the hole being of appreciable size-and l employ a button of iiexible material L formed with a stem to lit this hole and thin heads at opposite sides.

This is adapted Ito beflorceclto. place as shown in these figures to perform the same holding function as describedWi-th reference to the other figures ofthe drawing'.

In the form of my invention shown in Figs. 9 and 10, Fig. 9 shows the structure of either Fig.v 5 or 6 combined with that of Fig. 3, while` 10 shows the' structure of either Fig. 5 or 6 combined with that of bothV Figs. 3 and 4.

I also do not limit myself to placing the strip of material f at the place indicated as it may be placed at the opposite end of the jaws.- Y n The' device of my improvement is all the more efficient because vthe grip between the partsl is effective to its full extent at the moment that the jaws of the plate bin-d lirmly with the tapering tongue lmember when the same is in position, and the material of the garment interposed.

I claimas my invention:

l.- A clasp for garment supporters, comprising a tapering tongue member', a slotted 'aw plate member receiving the tongue mem er, and a strip of yielding material extending around the metal of the plate member at one end of the jaws and coming between the as to have a space between the jaws at one end and thel adjacent slot, and a strip of rubber surrounding .the plate member between the jaws at one end and the adjacent slot and coming between the surface of the j aw plate and the under surface of the tapering tongue member.

3. A clasp for garment supporters, comprising4 a tongue member, a jaw plate member receivingthe tongue member and a removable yiclding and leXible member adapt- A.

ed for attachment to the jaw plate member in the desired position and having apart extending beyond the surface plane of the said member to come in contact with the under side of the tongue member.V

Signed by me this 12th day of May 1908.

SAMDEL IOPS.

Witnesses GEO. T. PINCKNEY, E. ZACHARIASEN. 

